You will notice that this week there seems to be a lot of listening going on. Not hearing but listening. There is a difference. Even those of us who normally have our nose stuck in a book are out in the world and getting our reading fix by listening. I am not sure what to make of this. It’s funny when you think of it really. We all begin our...
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I feel I should tell you this right off the bat. We are not playing with this whole winter reappearance thing. It is just wrong that my car can be covered not only with pollen, but snow and ice too. If I am going to have allergy issues, it should at least be warmish out there. Babs B and I are still committed to maintaining the bare leg...
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Spring is suddenly everywhere we look and we are all out there staking our claim. Like the swallows to Capistrano, and the buzzards to Hinckley Ohio, the osprey’s have returned to their summer home over at the police station. The pansies are out next door and across the street and I have seen the eight man shells out on the Norwalk and Saugatuck rivers from my train....
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This week has been totally schizophrenic has it not? Monday morning’s soul crushing snow and cold which gave way to an afternoon full of sun and warm breeze, the beauty of yesterday (have we seen anything like that since October? I don’t think so!) and then today cold spitting rain. It’s April and my boy T.S. Eliot was not lying when he called it the ‘...
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